On-site

Save & Share Analytics Dashboards

Are you a coach or ScrumMaster for multiple teams in your organization? Do you have responsibility for multiple development efforts in your organization? Have you ever needed, or wanted, to switch between multiple dashboards that are configured slightly differently? If any of these apply to you, check out the new Save and Share ability we've added to the level-based dashboards in Analytics.

The Dashboard Save and Share functionality in Analytics allows you to create new Dashboards, configure them independently, and share them with other Lifecycle Members in your organization. You also have the ability to organize Dashboards into folders and share an entire folder. The saved Dashboards contain more than just panel layout and panel parameters; they also contain the Project and Program page level parameters as well. As a result, when you share the Dashboard, the viewer sees the Dashboard exactly as it was configured. Security when viewing a shared dashboard is that of the viewer. Therefore, a viewer may see different results on a Dashboard if their security settings are not the same as the Dashboard creator.

This feature is only available on the level-based dashboard; the Dashboards labeled “Dashboard” under the Enterprise, Portfolio, Program, and Team. Save and Share functionality is not available on the role-based dashboards; the dashboards labeled Executive, Product Owner, ScrumMaster, Quality, and Team.

Slack Integration

Team members utilizing Slack no longer have to check their email or Lifecycle inbox for notifications to their subscriptions. Support for Slack notifications using Slack incoming webhooks has been added. A user can harness existing Lifecycle subscriptions. After entering the incoming webhook provided by Slack the notifications will be sent to the Slack destination provided by the user during setup when a subscription is triggered.

Timesheet Review and Approval

Team members can now submit Timesheets in LifeCycle for their managers to review and approve. Approved timesheets are no longer editable by the team member.

The managers can easily find submitted Timesheets, which need to be approved or see the last submitted timesheets for their teams.

See the timesheet audit trail by running the Timesheet Audit Report, conveniently linked on the timesheet pages. Audit Timesheet actions by date range, by team member or by manager. If your auditor doesn't have access to LifeCycle, simply export this report as an Excel file.

Roadmap Publishing

Publish consistent roadmaps based on your Saved Views. Published roadmaps are now a logical extension of Saved Views, as the My Published Roadmaps feature has been upgraded to a more accessible Published Roadmaps listing specific to each Saved View. Product owners and others with system logins can see the revision history and access historically published roadmap revisions whenever needed.

Each Published roadmap has a unique URL so you can share it with others, even those who do not have a login to Lifecycle. Your Roadmap viewers can bookmark the URL and use repeatedly to see always the latest and greatest.

Other Roadmap Updates

Click-to-add capability on the board layout to build out a roadmap from scratch or add to an existing roadmap.

Generate pdf from roadmap available from both the timeline and board layouts to print and email roadmap for offline viewing.

With this release, the legacy roadmap feature has been completely removed as first announced in the Summer '16 Release Notes.

Integration Updates

IssueSync for Jira

Platform Updates

CommitStream

OAuth Support

OAuth support has been completely removed from Lifecycle in favor of access tokens, for more information about Lifecycle access tokens please click here.

If OAuth is still in use for an integration or a custom report updating to 17.0 will cause that integration or custom report to no longer function. Do not update until OAuth has been switched over to access token.

Continuum

Pipeline commands now support creation of branches for TFS, Bitbucket, and Github.

File-based risk metrics are now being calculated. Files with any amount of defects associated with them will receive a "risk factor".

Continuum now supports adding “directives” for packages. This allows you to execute discrete actions when a package enters a particular phase.

Pipelines can now be run directly from the pipeline definition editor for testing purposes.

Pipelines instance can now be re-run.

Git merge commits are now NOT counted as change and thereby will not show up as unmanaged or rogue.